I note that I have a heavily extemporized style, very rarely give the same talk twice, and have a background in competitive public speaking, all of which probably being down the cost performance curve in my favor.
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Noting this partly because many folks aspire to speak for career opportunities (which IMHO I think that people generally overestimate per unit effort) and very many folks don’t appreciate the *prodigious* amount of (often unpaid) work behind even a fairly simple conference.
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Career opportunities part: I think that there exists a perception, particularly in OSS, that the speakers circuit is very high status with employers and leads to very valuable consulting gigs. Pitching clients leads to consulting gigs; speaking gets leads only, and slowly.
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wild guess: was it your minorities lightning talk at
@bosconference 2010? showed it to@mojcamars and@jurezove this weekend and we were all blown away by the timing accuracy - 1 more reply
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The shorter the talk, the more prep I need. I usually want to convey a similar amount of idea. I only talk about things I can wax on about for hours. Writing a talk is a distillation process.
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Preachers I admired used to tell me they prepared about one hour per planned minute. (That this discipline aided concision is not to be doubted!)
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For the 1 hour talk, a one hour to minute ratio is reasonable, this equates audience and speaker time for an audience of 60. For audiences in the 10,000s then the talk is likely shorter and the effort much higher.
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Link to this performance?
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